AFAIK, the only legal restriction is that if you've purchased avgas--dunno
about
the racing fuel--you didn't pay 'road' tax. In fact, some aircraft can run
autogas and if you use it and keep your receipts and are willing to jump
through
the bureaucratic hoops you can get a rebate for the road tax.
I don't know of any laws that prohibit running leaded fuel in cars, but it's
near impossible to get--I doubt many FBOs will pump into a can for non-pilots
because of the tax requirement--and it'll destroy catalytic converters and good
luck passing your smog test.
Bob
Greg Lemon wrote:
> Technically I aagree with what Mark said, but just wanted to add that
> legally using leaded avgas or racing gas on your street car is not
> kosher. Had a friend who was diong that vary thing in an American muscle
> car, he got stopped by a State Patrol officer, the guy looked at his
> tailpipe and asked him if he was running leaded gas, I forget what the
> telltale is maybe white residue, someone on the list will know.
>
> Anyway, the guy (State P.) was a gearhead, didn't write him up, having
> said this if I had an high compression E-type or Cobra or something that
> needed racing fuel to run well on the street I'd probably do it too...
>
> Greg Lemon _______________________________________________
>
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